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“Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.”

“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”

Thinking Feels Mind May Suffering Pieces Shapes Regard Dare Active Block Flames Iron Feds Statues Marble Rubbish Hammered Anvils

Book:Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses

Source: Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses

“The tusk is a very tactile shape, looks great among the other charms and is a cool piece that I like.”

Looks Pieces Shapes Charm Tactile

Author:Victoria Beckham

“A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.”

Thinking Character Kids Together Form Stuff Can Do Pieces Color Shapes Hot Paint Painter Tone Fooled Neckties

Author:John French Sloan

“Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrative impact. In other words, you could tell a story with the shapes. It wouldn't be a literal story, but the shapes and the interaction of the shapes and colors would give you a narrative sense. You could have a sense of an abstract piece flowing along and being part of an action or activity. That sort of turned me on.”

Giving Kind Stories Action Simple Pieces Color Activity Shapes Impact Narrative Abstract Interaction Abstraction Curves Geometry Literal

Author:Frank Stella

“Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.”

Thinking Needs Feels Believe Mean Life Is Dies Morning Pieces Drink Shapes Wake Up Addiction Cricket Alcoholism Alcoholics Shaking Sensational

Author:Mercedes McCambridge

“There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to fight with each other. The set piece that shapes and contains quarrels in homogeneous countries does not exist here. The Frenchman is an expert on the precise gradations of espèce de and the Italian knows exactly when to introduce the subject of his other's grave, but no American can be sure how or when another will react, so we zap each other with friendliness to neutralize potentially dangerous situations.”

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.”

Ifs Way Humans Enough Use Eye Strong Fire Pieces Building Painting Shapes Size Scales Artistic Smallest Composition Strong Enough Continuum Human Eyes Small Pieces Kindling

Author:Rudolf Arnheim

“People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.”

People May Said House Pieces Shapes Diversity Built Puzzles Bricks Interdependence Unity In Diversity Matching Inspirational Diversity Great Diversity Diversity Of Life

Author:Felix Adler

“I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.”

“The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.”

Writing Enough Suffering Fun Process Challenges Pieces Fields Serious Materials Shapes Letting Go Research Labor Backgrounds Narrative Beloved Length Flaws Writing Process Paragraph

Author:Bob Shacochis

“It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.”

People Want Firsts Looks Play Moving Games Loses Pieces Stupid Masters Shapes Complicated Chess Knights Stupid People Checkers

Author:Courtney Love

“When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.”

Together Pieces Fit Shapes Patterns

Author:Tana French

“I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.”

Thinking Hands Pieces Design Ready Shapes Touched Cherish Museums

Author:Eva Zeisel

“Do not think I do not realise what I am doing. I am making a composition using the following elements: the winter beach; the winter moon; the ocean; the women; the pine trees; the riders; the driftwood; the shells; the shapes of darkness and the shapes of water; and the refuse. These are all inimical to my loneliness because of their indifference to it. Out of these pieces of inimical indifference, I intend to represent the desolate smile of winter which, as you must have gathered, is the smile I wear.”

“When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.”

Whole Loses Pieces Shapes Mass Complexes Patterns Details Organize Vague Nuance Snapshots

Book:Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“If I have a blank piece of paper and I draw a red figure, immediately this brings sounds and shapes to my mind. I tried to make a film in which every component supports the others while giving each other space and stimulating the creation of what's yet to come.”

Ifs Giving Mind Film Sound Space Support Pieces Figures Creation Shapes Paper Draws Red Blank Components

Author:Alex Abreu

“Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.”

Knows Kind Stills War Sex Pay Pieces Four Week Shapes Six Chess Civil War Mail One Piece

Author:Bill Engvall

“I felt that there's an obligation when writing a piece about an urban expressway made in the 50s to acknowledge the context, and Robert Moses is sort of an iconic figure in New York, and he influenced the shape of the city more than anyone else before or after him. He was one of the most powerful and influential civic architects in the world, because of how much he transformed the city. He built multiple bridges and highways and parks and recreational spaces, beaches - in the course of a few decades, he completely changed the city”

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